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Patricia Johnson-Castle

Patricia is Nunatsiavut Inuk as well as of British and German descent. She was raised as a second-generation urban Inuk in St. John’s, Newfoundland but is currently on Dakota and Ojibwe homelands in Minneapolis completing a PhD in history at the University of Minnesota. Previously, Patricia worked as the Director of Policy and Planning for the Nunatsiavut Government, and was a Jane Glassco Northern Policy Fellow. She holds a Bachelor's of Arts in African studies from McGill University and Master's of Arts in anthropology from the University of Cape Town. Her first book, Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together, was published in 2025. She credits a significant degree of the quality of her work to her day-to-day supervisor: her husky, Duke.

Pijitsirniq and Ikajuqtigiinniq as an Alternative Approach to Economic Development in Inuit Nunangat

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In this Brief, Patricia Johnson-Castle examines how capitalist policy frameworks continue to shape life in Inuit Nunangat — often at odds with Inuit ways of living and community responsibility. She asks what it would mean to stop adapting Southern “solutions” and instead imagine public policy that reflects the realities, values, and scale of the North..

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Not So Grand Plans: The Continued Erasure of Indigenous Rights in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Hydroelectric ‘Development’

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In this Brief, Johnson-Castle and Penney, argue that Newfoundland and Labrador’s continued push to advance hydroelectric development – not under the auspices of recovery from COVID-19 – is in disregard of Indigenous rights and title, and risks compounding social, health and economic impacts for the whole region.

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